Dec 2011:
On the job market. Please click here for application materials.
Dec 2011: Presented "MicroTE: The Case for Fine-Grained Traffic Engineering in Data Centers"
Oct 2011: Presented "CloudNaaS: A Cloud Networking Platform for Enterprise Applications"
Aug 2011: Presented "Demystifying Configuration Challenges and Trade-offs in Network-based ISP Services"
Nov 2010: Presented "Peeking into the Cloud: Toward User-driven Cloud Management" at Clouds10
Nov 2010: Received IMC Best Paper Award for "Network Traffic Characteristics of Data Centers in the Wild"
Nov 2010: Presented "Network Traffic Characteristics of Data Centers in the Wild" at IMC
About Me
I am a sixth year graduate student with
Prof.
Aditya Akella. My general research interest lie within systems and networks but my most recent work has been along the management and traffic engineering dimensions of enterprise networks, data center networks, and cloud computing.
Prior to graduate school, I was a back-end software engineer/release engineer for a start-up out of MIT media labs called Open Ratings.
My current and past research projects include:
Data Center Measurements:
Study of traffic in data centers. Data set available here.
MicroTE:
An online centralized approach to traffic engineering in data centers.
CloudView:
A study of the issues encountered by users of IaaS cloud platforms.
TrafficJam: A traffic generator for data centers.[coming soon]
ConfCap: An application for measuring the complexity involved in managing enterprise networks.
Unraveling the Complexity of Network Management Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella, and David A. Maltz
(Microsoft Research) Proceedings of the USENIX Networked Systems and Design Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, Apr 2009
Understanding Data Center Traffic Characteristics Theophilus Benson, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella, and Ming Zhang (Microsoft Research) Accepted for publication in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), 2010
A First Look at Problems in the Cloud Theophilus Benson, Sambit Sahu (IBM Research), Aditya Akella, and Anees Shaikh (IBM Research) Proceedings of the USENIX HotCloud Workshop, Boston, MA, Jun 2010
Understanding Data center Traffic Characteristics Theophilus Benson, Ashok Anand, Aditya Akella, and Ming Zhang (Microsoft Research) Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop for Research on Enterprise Networks (WREN), Barcelona, Spain, Aug 2009
Unraveling complexity in network management Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella, and David Maltz (Microsoft Research) University of Wisconsin Computer Science Technical Report TR1643, 2008